May 2025

Due to NOAA's current forecast (as of 12pm) it is strongly recommended that the public not arrive until after 4pm on Saturday. The music artist has been cancelled. Solar viewing ...

CANCELLED. HRPO will close by at least 9pm. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing gibbous Moon will be at a ...

The International Space Station is one of the greatest engineering feats in human history. From October 2004 to April 2005, Leroy Chiao and Salizhan Sharipov conducted experiments and did what ...

The 20OGS dome is undergoing repairs. Viewing will take place on the front pad. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waxing ...

For over four decades the Baton Rouge Astronomical Society has educated countless numbers of citizens in the joys of planetary and deep-sky gazing, and factors to consider when buying a ...

Weather permitting, viewing of the Sun’s image in four different manners (indirectly onto a white surface, directly with safely-filtered optical light, directly in hydrogen-alpha wavelength and directly in calcium-K wavelength) ...

In March 1980, this volcano erupted for the first time in over 100 years, killing over fifty people and shocking the country. Education Program Specialist Amy Northrop recounts the amazing ...

The 20OGS dome is undergoing repairs. Viewing will take place on the front pad. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During this time the waning ...

Cadets will discover the majestic objects that can be spied in a natural sky without any equipment. To register, go to www.brec.org, access the registration function and use Activity Number ...

The 20OGS dome is undergoing repairs. Viewing will take place on the front pad. HRPO will close at 9:45pm. Sunset, 7:52pm CDT. Twilight Ends, 9:25pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through ...

HRPO will open at 6:15pm. The majority of this program's information and will take place (weather permitting) during the weekend's two Evening Sky Viewing sessions. Sunset, 7:56pm CDT. In a ...

This program is dependent upon the rain and thunder having left the HRPO area. Twilight Ends, 9:31pm CDT. Weather permitting, viewing through one or more telescopes will take place. During ...